{"id":3879,"date":"2020-03-26T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2020-03-27T14:11:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T18:11:47","slug":"artist-spotlight-chandler-travis-says-lets-get-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2020\/03\/26\/artist-spotlight-chandler-travis-says-lets-get-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Spotlight: The Incredible Casuals Say \u201cLet\u2019s Get Better\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chandler Travis has released music in an impressive range of styles with his different ensembles, including the Chandler Travis Philharmonic, The Catbirds, and the Chandler Travis Three-O. He\u2019s likely got more music in his vault than most musicians will produce in a lifetime. You can explore all of these different phases and incarnations on <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.chandlertravis.com\/\">The Chandler Travis Philharmonic Bandcamp page<\/a>, and pick up a few things to help support the music. Also, avail yourself of your next opportunity to see the Philharmonic live. They are a joy to see and hear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\nweek, Travis dipped into his archives to release \u201cLet\u2019s Get Better\u201d by The\nIncredible Casuals, a band he helped found in 1980. As noted on the page, this\nsong was originally released on a Boston ska compilation called Mash It Up \u201993.\nIt\u2019s a sprightly rocking ska tune with the uplifting refrain, \u201cLet\u2019s get\nbetter\/We can do it for ourselves.\u201d As Travis calls it, \u201cjust a bit of\nall-purpose encouragement.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s\nGet Better:\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/track=1473940792\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.chandlertravis.com\/track\/lets-get-better\">Let&#39;s Get Better by The Incredible Casuals<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>You can hear Travis talk about his music and stories career on Episode 25 of the Department of Tangents Podcast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/5239780\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"border: none\" msallowfullscreen=\"\" oallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandler Travis has released music in an impressive range of styles with his different ensembles, including the Chandler Travis Philharmonic, The Catbirds, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2488,7],"tags":[1131,2500,1875],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artist-spotlight","category-music","tag-chandler-travis-philharmonic","tag-ska","tag-the-chandler-travis-three-o"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Chandler-Travis.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lGwW-10z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3886,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions\/3886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}